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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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In another case, where certain parties are charged with violating the liquor law, the following language occurs: "Whether 'Old Joe' has any liquor and lunch bills standing at the above places, we do not know; but there runs a tradition that 'Old Joe' is hard on those inn and grog-keepers who cast up scores chalked down behind the door against him." From the Examiner of the 12th of July the following extract from the Mayor's Court proceedings is copied in the indictment: "George Drew, the man so earnestly sought in the case of John P. Sledd, was in court this morning." * * * "Drew confirms every word of Mr. Sleld's statement in regard to the manner in which he came in possession of the cows, which statement the Mayor chose to set at naught, and committed Mr. Sledd to jail. Mr. Sledd will now have justice done him, when a malignant Mayor finds he can no farther carry his enmity concealed beneath the draggled gown of his office without exposure and detection."